Download of the Week: Xylouris White

Xylouris White is Cretan lute player/vocalist George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White. Mother, released on Bella Union on January 19, 2018, is their third album of a series:

Xylouris says, "Mother is the extension of Ghosts and Black Peak. Three things, all part of a whole. Goats are mothers, Zeus was raised on Amaltheia's milk, Black Peak is Mother's Earth... Mother Earth is the mother of everything."

Mother tracks terrain from mild to wild, speaking in old and new tongues. I find it infectious and at times ecstatic. What more can you ask? What more can you want?

Mother is available for download from Qobuz and CD from Bandcamp (US only).